On 07/04/2012, at 11:21, Dan Lewis <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 2012-04-05 at 13:59 +1000, Jean Weber wrote: >> On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 12:17, Dan Lewis <[email protected]> wrote: >>> On Mon, 2012-04-02 at 16:26 +1000, Jean Weber wrote: >>>> Dan, >>>> >>>> Recently you published an ePub version of Getting Started with Base. >>>> You mentioned using Calibre and Sigil to create it. I was very >>>> impressed with the result (much better than any other ePub conversion >>>> of a user guide chapter that I've seen). I would be very grateful to >>>> have some instruction in what to do and how to do it... or even just a >>>> few pointers... if and when you have a chance to provide that info. >>>> Thanks! >>>> >>>> --Jean >>>> >>> >>> I have begun this project. The Alfresco now has the beginning draft >>> of it in the Resources folder. So far, I have covered how to change the >>> title page to what it should be, the Copyright page, and the Contents >>> page (TOC). Tomorrow I will begin working on how to make the text look >>> more like it should. >>> I had to add a heading style to the style sheet to make the title >>> page correct. There will be more styles that will have to be added in a >>> similar way to the stylesheet.css file. >>> The <ol>, <li>, and <ul> tags are not always where they should be >>> so this has to be changed. With the additional styles, some of the >>> classes are also changed. >>> I find that styles in xhtml is very similar to what we have been >>> doing with styles for our documentation. Perhaps you will see this when >>> I have gone further in this project. >> >> >> Dan, >> Thank you so very much for doing this! I'm generally familiar with css >> and xhtml coding, but have not taken the time to get into the details >> of making it all work for our books. You're going to save me hours (or >> days) of work. >> >> --Jean > > I did not notice that you had revised what I wrote. Just now I > uploaded a thorough rewrite. It is better organized and contains much > more materials. I think the directions in this revision may save you > even more time. Meanwhile, I will study your revisions to see how to > combine them with mine. > This has been very thought provoking. One of the things that I'm > wondering about is the style sheet used in ePUB. How many of the styles > especially the graphics frame styles (for example, .G-fr) are really > needed. It should be possible to create a style sheet with all the OOo > styles without all the others. Sigil permits replacing the present > stylesheet.ccs file with one of our own choosing. Of course if that is > done, then this requires using find and replace to change the styles in > the code. Ah, one can dream! That would take some time, but it might > also save time in the long run perhaps. > > --Dan
I made no revisions to your article. Perhaps someone else did? I'll d/l your latest iteration. Thanks again. --Jean -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
